Editorial January 15, 1903 Issue

True Humility

In these days of social unrest, of sharp and almost merciless competition for personal supremacy in all lines of human endeavor,—commercial, political, and religious,—the world can listen to no better counsel than that of Paul to the Ephesians: "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

Humility is wholly apart from the false sense dominated by fear and timidity, which shrinks from the private and public duties and responsibilities of daily life, and which frequently finds expression in sensitiveness, selfishness, and helplessness.

True humility has ever been characteristic of the faithful followers of Jesus. It is a normal, harmonious condition of consciousness, and is manifested in true brotherliness, unselfish love, untiring energy; it is satisfied and amply rewarded with the "Well done" of Spirit, and is not affected by the plaudits of men. If need be, it is aggressive to the point of daring, courageous to the extreme of wisdom, meek to the limit of forbearance. It has been described by an old writer as the virtue "which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it."

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